Collapsible window grille



.Bul '15, 1924. 1,501,545

N. H. PlFFARD-FRANCIS COLLAPSIBLE WINDCW GRILLE Filed Oct. 26. 1921 ENTOR I @Ii-M ATTORNEYS- Patented July 15, 1924.

NINA H. PIFFABD-FRANCIS, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW Y GOLLAPSIBLE WIW GRILLE.

Application filed October 26, 1921. Serial No. 510,648.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, NINA H. PIFFARD- FRANCIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible WVindow Grilles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the ornamentation of windows where the effect desired is produced by a frame dividing the surface of the window to the eye into small anes or divisions of any chosen ornamental shape each being separately set and the ob'ect of the invention is to produce the desire ornamental efiect without resorting.

to the troublesome and'expensive method of settin each of a number of panels individually into the frame, as is done in windows having what is known as leaded glass panels.

To carry out this invention I employ a frame the various members of which are suitably fastened together and arranged to produce to the eye the ornamental individual panels. desired, combined with means for setting said frame directly against the surface of the glass window pane and retaining it in position thereon, all as more partic- -ularly hereinafter described.

In carrying out in invention, the frame is by preference ma e collapsible although this is not necessary to the purposes of my invention and merely adds to the ease with which the same may be removed from position against the surface of the pane to permit the cleaning of the latter. When, however, the frame is made collapsible, the individual panels or panel effect may readily be made to imitate diamond panes. Other shapes of members, however, might be used to give variations in the ornamental shapes of the individual panels. In the illustration of the invention shown the oenterpanel is a larger diamond surrounded by smaller ones.

In the acompanyin drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front e evation of a window furnished with a frame according to my invention to give the a pearance of a window having numerous iamond-shaped panes each separately set in the usual manner.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2---2.

Fig. 3 shows the frame partially collapsed for withdrawal from position. I

1. indicates the window sash and 2. a pane a number of panes each havin setting this eifect being secured of glass having a continuous, flat surface and permanently set or retained at its edges in said sash in any suitable way.

3 indicates the various members of the frame which members aremade of such thickness and are fastened together in such way as to permit the frame thus provided to set immediately against the surface of the pane, where it may be retained in position b the cleats or retaining pieces 4, the latter ein however detachable or movable to allow t e frame to be removed. The material of the members 3 is wood, metal or other suitable substance. For convenience the individual members 3 may be hingedly connected together to form a collapsible tion should be paid to so constructing the frame as a whole as to permit the plane thereof as a whole to be applied closely to or in contact with the surface of the pane 2.

When the frame is thus constructed by hinginlg the strips together it may be readil partia y collapsed as shown in ig. 3, an on re-application to the pane 2, may be s read out to fill the space marked by the e es of said pane.

will be seen, my invention affords a cheap and very inexpensive way of producing in a window already set the ornamental eflect ofa leaded window made of reason of the fact that the frame, divi ed into its own anels, can be applied directly to the surace of the window pane. Also; as will be seen, the window may be readily ke t clean since the frame is readily removable y simply detaching the cleats or retaining pieces 4, 4. It will be understood that the members of the frame are of such size that when osition shown in it is expanded from the completely fill Fig. 3, it will substantial the space bounded by the rams-1 in which the pane 2 is set. o

What I claim as my invention 181- 1. The combination with a window sash or frame and a pane of glass having a continuous flat surface permanently set or retained at its edges in said sash, of a paneled frame applied dlrectly in engagement with the flat surface of the window pane and simulating by its panels the individual lights of a leaded window and means on the window sash or frame for detachably securing said paneled frame in position against the continuous surface of the window pane.

2. In an ornamental window, the combination with a window sash having a continuous pane of glass permanently set in it at its ed es and a collapsible frame simulating, w en expanded, the diamonds or lozenges of a leaded glass window, said collapsible frame being made of thin strips hingedly secured together and fillin the whole space in the WlIlClOW frame whi e expanded and applied directly against the face of the window pane and retaining pieces at the edges of the window sash for removably holding said frame of hinged members in direct contact with the surface of the window pane as and [or the purpose described.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 24th day of October A. D. 1921.

NINA H. PIFFARD-FRANCIS.

Witnesses:

F, B. TOWNSEND, IRENE LEFKOWITZ. 

